Book description
One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.
By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and…
Why read it?
1 author picked Beautiful Losers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
For me, Leonard Cohen stretched the boundaries for writing in this book. I feel he was facing crises within his own life to write such a book.
The world he creates is surreal and an emotional ride. I identify with the characters and the reasons people do what they do. Anger, surprise, fear, anxiety. These are all part of human existence and our social beings. To isolate is one thing but to engage in relationships can be an exhausting, daunting task that can end badly or not.
We as beings are fallible, we do things we don't always intend. Life…
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